The FarmQuest Project: Salimata Traoré

The FarmQuest Project: Salimata Traoré

Building confidence, and growing a market garden, in the village of Wakoro

Salimata Traoré is a young woman anxious to build a future as a professional market gardener. In the past, she has grown a garden on a small scale, but now Traoré wants to grow on a larger scale. It won’t be easy. Some of the difficulties Traoré faced in the past were access to seeds and traveling to neighbouring

An African woman smiling

The FarmQuest Project: Awa Doumbia

Growing a peanut crop from scratch in the village of Dien

As part of the Daba Kabalen project, Awa Doumbia was given a one hectare field by her village chief to grow peanuts. But first the field needed to be cleaned up and plowed as it had never been used to grow crops. Termites were also rife in the soil and Doumbia would need a pesticide to


Two cattle producers from Mali

The FarmQuest Project: Fanto Samake

A young producer from Mali discovers the challenges and opportunities of raising dairy cattle

As a young boy in Mali, Fanto Samake started out his herd with just three cattle. Samake sees the advantages other farmers have who raise cattle, but it doesn’t come without its own set of challenges. For instance, he can only milk his cows in the rainy season because there isn’t enough grazing pasture for them to produce

Keeping young people on the farm — in Mali

A 'radio reality' series on a local radio station aims to convince young Africans that farming can be a profitable career

It’s a worldwide challenge — convincing young people that farming can be a profitable and rewarding career. In Mali, a rural radio station is taking on the challenge through a contest developed along with Farm Radio International, a Canadian organization that works with more than 500 radio stations broadcasting to millions of farmers in Sub-Saharan